Wolstenholme, Kenneth (1920–2002), football commentator, was born at Cavendish House, Cavendish Road, Worsley, near Manchester, on 17 July 1920, the son of Thomas Wolstenholme, a cotton merchant, and his wife, Euphemia, née Redgrave. He had two brothers and two sisters and was brought up a Methodist. The family was prosperous enough in the 1920s both to own a car and to send three of the children to private schools. But the impact of the depression on the cotton trade meant that ...
